1900.] L. de Niceville — Butterflies of the Kanara District. 219 



Grasses (Graminese), 



The Y. philomela, Jolianssen, of , the second Kanara paper. It is 

 quite possible that the true Y. philomela, Johanssen (I do not know 

 what the Y. philomela of Linnaeus is) may also occur in Kanara, as I 

 have specimens from the Nilgiri Hills, the Wynaad (type of Y. tabella, 

 Marshall), as well as from Henzada and Manlin in Burma. Dr. F. Moore 

 in "Lep. Ind." restricts Y. philomela, Johansson [sic], to Java and Suma- 

 tra, and gives Y, tabella full specific rank, recording it from South India 

 and Burma. In Lep. Ind., vol. ii, p. 58, he defines Thymipa, the genus in 

 which he places Ypthima philomela, as having a prominent androconial 

 patch in the male, while in describing Thymipa tabella, p. 73, he says it 

 has " No glandular patch nor androconia." As a matter of fact the patch 

 is sometimes absent, sometimes faintly present, and sometimes promi- 

 nent, especially so in specimens from Java and Bali. In Sumatran speci- 

 mens it is faint, in Burmese and South Indian examples apparently 

 entirely absent. 



19. Ypthima huebneri, Kirby. 

 Grasses (Graminese), 



Some Kanarese examples of this species have pure white cilia to the 

 hindwing, while others have the outer half of the disc of the hinclwing 

 on the upperside suffused with white, thereby approximating in coloration 

 to Y. ceylonica, Hewitson. 



20. Zip(Etes saitis, Hewitson. 

 Ochlandra stridula, Thwaites (Graminese) . 



21. Melanitis ismene, Cramer. 

 Oryza saliva, Linn. (Graminese). 

 Grasses (Graminese) . 



The M. leda, Linnasus, of the first Kanara paper, p. 267. 



22. Melanitis vara ha, Moore. 

 Grasses (Graminese). 



Colonel C. Swinhoe's Melanitis ampa, described in Ann. and Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist., sixth series, vol. v, p. 353, n. 1 (1890) from North Kanara, 

 July, is a wet-season form of M. varaha. 



23. Melanitis gokala, Moore. 



Bam busa arundinacea, Willd. (Gramineie). 



